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, 2021 This chapter on social insurance lays out the principles and design features of an optimal scheme for retirement and health provisions that takes into account contingent events such as facing unemployment or suffering disability. With Singapore in mind, it sets up a scenario for a country that has completed its phase of catch-up growth – transiting ...
Peter Zweifel +2 more
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Social Insurance Networks [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 Based on administrative panel data from Norway, we examine how social insurance dependency spreads within neighborhoods, families, ethnic minorities, and among former schoolmates. We use a fixed effects methodology that accounts for endogenous group formation, contextual interactions, and time-constant as well as time-varying confounders.
Markussen, Simen, Røed, Knut
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Social Determinants of Health and Race Disparities in Kidney Transplant.
American Society of Nephrology. Clinical Journal, 2021 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Black patients have a higher incidence of kidney failure but lower rate of deceased- and living-donor kidney transplantation compared with White patients, even after taking differences in comorbidities into account.
Hannah M. Wesselman +12 more
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The introduction of sickness insurance in Spain in the first decades of the Franco dictatorship (1939-1962) [PDF]
, 2013 [Abstract:]Using new statistical data on financing, coverage and economic and health care provisions, this article analyses how sickness insurance was introduced, managed and extended in Spain, under the Franco dictatorship, between 1939 and 1962. This
Pons Pons, Jerònia +1 more
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Health Policy, 2015 Little is known about health and social care provision for people with long-term care (LTC) needs under multiple insurances. The aim of this study is to compare the profile, case-mix, and service provision to older people at long-term care hospitals ...
Hongsoon Kim, Y. Jung, Soonman Kwon
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Social-Ecological Barriers to Access to Healthcare for Adolescents: A Scoping Review
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 Access to healthcare for adolescents is often overlooked in the United States due to federal and state-sponsored insurance programs such as Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. While these types of programs provide some relief, the issue
W. Garney +7 more
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Social health insurance reexamined [PDF]
Health Economics, 2009 AbstractSocial health insurance (SHI) is enjoying something of a revival in parts of the developing world. Many countries that have in the past relied largely on tax finance (and out‐of‐pocket payments) have introduced SHI, or are thinking about doing so.
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Social protection responses to COVID-19 in Africa
Global Social Policy, 2021 Most African countries implemented measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 during 2020, such as restrictions on business activity and travel, school closures and stay-at-home lockdowns for several months.
S. Devereux
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Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2021 In the face of a pandemic, social media have found to be vital information channels that might exert a positive influence on people's preventive behaviors.
Piper Liping Liu
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Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2020 OBJECTIVE To synthesize the literature on associations between social determinants of health and pregnancy-related mortality and morbidity in the United States and to highlight opportunities for intervention and future research.
E. Wang +3 more
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